Gaspar Bouttats (c.1640 – 1695/96) Fort Rammekens, maritime view with ships, 17th century etching/engraving, dated 1674. Gaspar Bouttats (c.1640 - 1695/96) after Jan Peeters (1624 - 1678). Descriptive text in letterpress in Dutch and French below the print. From: "Thooneel der steden ende sterckten van 't vereenight Nederlandt met d'aengrensende plaetsen soo in Brabandt Vlaenderen als enen Rhijn en elders verovert door de waepenen der Groot-moghende Heeren Staeten onder het gheleij van de (...) princen van Oranien". Gheteeckent by I. Peeters ende Ga. Bouttats, Antwerp, [1674]. 144 x 247 mm.

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